California mite becomes fastest land animal

Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 15:51 in Biology & Nature

Despite being the size of a sesame seed, the Paratarsotomus macropalpis mite can outpace Usain Bolt and even a cheetah in terms of body lengths per second.

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